Apologetics

The reasoned defense and justification of the Christian faith.

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Arguments for God

7 resources

• The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Why the Universe Points Beyond Itself
• Is God Hidden? Answering the Argument from Divine Hiddenness
• Does God Exist? The Strongest Arguments for Theism Explained
• Your DNA Points to God
• The Problem with Calling the World Evil
• (Video) The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Why the Universe Points Beyond Itself
• Kalam's Three Steps

Heaven & Hell

3 resources

• How Can a Loving God Judge People in Hell?
• Once Saved, Always Saved? The Orthodox Christian Understanding of Salvation and Perseverance
• Hell: When the Love of God Becomes Torment

Free Will & Human Responsibility

1 resource

• Once Saved, Always Saved? The Orthodox Christian Understanding of Salvation and Perseverance

Objective Morality

2 resources

• Does the Bible Endorse Slavery? What the Text Actually Says
• The Problem with Calling the World Evil

Problem of Evil

2 resources

• If God Exists, Why Is There So Much Evil and Suffering?
• The Problem with Calling the World Evil

Science & Christian Belief

6 resources

• The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Why the Universe Points Beyond Itself
• Has Science Disproved Christianity?
• Your DNA Points to God
• (Video) The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Why the Universe Points Beyond Itself
• Kalam's Three Steps
• Genesis & the Age of the Earth

Resurrection & Historical Evidence

7 resources

• Why Does Rabbinic Judaism Reject Jesus as Messiah? The Strongest Jewish Objections—and the Christian Response
• Did Christianity Copy Pagan Religions? Mithras, Horus, Osiris, Dionysus, and the “Dying and Rising Gods” Claim
• Did Jesus Really Exist? The Historical Evidence Against Jesus Mythicism
• Jesus Outside the New Testament: What Non-Christian Sources Actually Establish
• Can Miracles Really Happen?
• The Historical Case for the Resurrection of Jesus
• Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?

Biblical Ethics & Moral Objections

4 resources

• Did God Command Genocide in the Old Testament?
• Does the Bible Support Slavery? The Hard Passages Explained
• Does the Bible Endorse Polygamy? Tolerated in Israel, Never the Ideal
• Does the Bible Endorse Slavery? What the Text Actually Says

The Trinity

1 resource

• Why Does Rabbinic Judaism Reject Jesus as Messiah? The Strongest Jewish Objections—and the Christian Response

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• Who Did the Earliest Christians Think Jesus Was?
• Extra-Biblical Sources for Jesus: What They Say and What They Mean
• Is Christianity Just One Religion Among Many? What About People Who Never Hear the Gospel?
• Does the Bible Contradict Itself? How to Evaluate Alleged Contradictions
• Did Jesus Actually Claim to Be God?
• Jesus in Non-Christian Ancient Sources
• The Biblical Case for the Trinity
• (Video) The Problem with Calling the World Evil
• (Video) Did Jesus Abandon His Church?
• 52 Apologetics Verses (Memory Card Deck)
• Did Jesus Claim to Be God?